- South Park (it turns out that Butters had caused an accident that killed 8 people at the said Nationals.)

This is when someone suddenly suffers from the onset of repressed traumatic memories because of some trigger, such as another character unknowingly saying or doing something related to the memories. This typically results in the traumatized individual getting extremely anxious, and may even lead to them breaking down in tears or engaging in sudden violent behavior.

Examples

In Monster Rancher, Genki gets chewed out by Seuzo for asking Holly about her family (turns out she has a Disappeared Dad.) She decides she needs to talk about it, anyway.

In Ranma ½, the titular character is deathly afraid of cats, as a result of the time his idiot father bound him up in fish sausages and threw him into a pit full of hungry cats in an effort to teach him the "Cat Fist" technique. His secret is accidentally revealed after Kasumi brings home a cat that she'd promised to take care of.

When the Runaways visited Avengers Academy, Reptil shows off his dinosaur-impersonation abilities by turning into a deinonychus. This doesn't go over too well with Klara, who was once trapped under a deinonychus corpse. It's apparently enough of a trigger for her (and her teammates have enough awareness of it) that Karolina is compelled to immediately run over and try and calm her down.

In Batgirl, the Mirror manages to induce a panic attack in Babs by pointing a gun at her in exactly the same fashion as The Joker did when he paralyzed her. He probably hadn't known how effective it would be.

In Avengers: The Initiative, Terrance "Trauma" Ward has the ability to morph into the worst fear of anyone around him. He was quickly reassigned to the black-ops Shadow Initiative after causing severe anxiety attacks in several of his fellow trainees.

In Iron Man 3, any mention of what happened in New York, or anything that makes Tony think of it, causes him to have a nervous breakdown, which makes it tough on him when kids, who now idolize him as a hero, keep asking him about what happened there, not realizing the effect it's having.

In Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye, when Captain-Supervisor Grammel mentions an Imperial Governor, Princess Leia remembers her interrogation in the Death Star while she was Grand Moff Tarkin's prisoner. She starts breathing unevenly, beads of sweat appear on her forehead, and she starts crying.

In More Tales of the City, a rose peddler accidentally causes a panic attack in the amnesiac Burke, though it also enables him and Mary Ann to begin figuring out how he lost his memory - his memory loss was the result of discovering a cannibal cult, who tried to compel him to feast on a human arm with a tattoo of a rose.

Possibly subverted (depending on your interpretation) or played straight in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Professor Moody seriously upsets Neville Longbottom by displaying the Cruciatus Curse for the class - Neville's parents were driven incurably insane by the Cruciatus Curse. The possible subversion comes in that "Professor Moody" was actually one of the people who tortured Neville's parents into insanity and, as a thoroughly evil bastard, may have known and enjoyed what he was doing to Neville.

Played with in Venus Prime 2, in which Sparta hires massage therapists to work over her whole body, hoping that their ministrations will trigger some of the memories that the Free Spirit stole from her.

In one episode of The Drew Carey Show, Mr. Wick grows tired of Mimi's outlandish outfits and garish makeup and tries to seal her up inside a cubicle so that he won't have to look at her. However, she turns out to be severely claustrophobic, and Drew ends up convincing Wick to remove the partitions, because her usual bitchy self is far more preferable to the nervous wreck that she's turning into.

In one episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a young man at a party suddenly goes berserk and kills one of the revelers. Goren and Eames learn that the young man had been locked up in a basement for long periods of time and subjected to loud house music as part of some cruel therapy for his Ambiguous Disorder, so when he heard the same kind of music being played at the party, it caused him to want to kill.

In Halt and Catch Fire, Cameron meets Joe McMillan's father, Joe Sr., and they actually get along for a while... until Joe Sr. says that Cameron must make her own father very proud. Cameron lost her dad when she was only 10 years old, and the mere mention of him upsets her so badly that she retreats into another room to cry.

In the pilot of Tyrant, Barry's carefully-maintained stoic façade is jarred when, during his nephew's wedding, his brother Jamal fires a gun into the air and then hands the gun to Barry, expecting him to do the same. This causes Barry to experience a flashback to the time his father tried to force Jamal to shoot someone, but Barry ended up having to do it because Jamal was too scared. Barry hands the gun back to Jamal, and quickly walks away before his panic starts to show.

In an episode of Necessary Roughness, TK hires a massage therapist to try and speed up his recovery after getting shot. However, he repeatedly throws her out because she keeps touching the area where he got shot, causing him to remember the shooting. After he finally relents and actually starts to remember the shooting, he shows up at Dr. Santino's house looking utterly wrecked.

Narrowly averted in the pilot of Defiance; Tommy goes to arrest Irisa, but Nolan talks him out of using handcuffs, saying that Irisa had some really bad experiences with being chained up, and if Tommy tries to put cuffs on her, she will flip out and probably kill him. Since Irisa happens to be a ferocious-looking catgirl, Tommy wisely decides to follow Nolan's advice.

The page quote comes from an episode of South Park where Stan attempts to recruit Butters for his dance crew because Butters used to be a champion tap-dancer. This being Butters, he has traumatic memories associated with his tap-dancing days.

The Family Guy episode "The Fat Guy Stranger" has Peter dressing up as Ralph Kramden and repeating the phrase "Pow, right in the kisser!" in front of Lois' brother Patrick, who had been traumatized as a child from seeing his mom have an affair with Jackie Gleeson. This causes him to go on a fat-man killing spree.

Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye. When Captain-Supervisor Grammel mentions an Imperial Governor, Princess Leia remembers her interrogation in the Death Star while she was Grand Moff Tarkin's prisoner. She starts breathing unevenly, beads of sweat appear on her forehead and she starts crying.

The Family Guy episode "The Fat Guy Stranger" has Peter dressing up as Ralph Kramden and repeating the phrase "Pow, right in the kisser!" in front of Lois' brother Patrick, who had been traumatized as a child from seeing his mom have an affair with Jackie Gleeson. This causes him to go on a fat-man killing spree.

When the Runaways visited Avengers Academy, Reptil shows off his dinosaur-impersonation abilities by turning into a deinonychus. This doesn't go over too well with Klara, who was trapped under Old Lace's corpse.

The page quote comes from an episode of South Park where Stan attempts to recruit Butters for his dance crew because Butters used to be a champion tap-dancer. This being Butters, he has traumatic memories associated with his tap-dancing days.

Does it count if the person is reminded of traumatic experience (as ambiguous as it may sound without further explanation), but is unfazed (perhaps, he's gotten over it by now)? Would it count if the person becomes sad or annoyed, but only lightly, nowhere near being incapacitated or hysterical?

Description is lacking on this, and the title suggests emphasis on obliviousness, hence the questions.

Possibly ultimately subverted (depending on your interpretation) or played straight in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, when Professor Moody seriously upsets Neville Longbottom by displaying the Cruciatus Curse for the class. The possible subversion comes in that "Professor Moody" was actually one of the people who tortured Neville's parents into insanity and, as a thoroughly evil bastard, may have known and enjoyed what he was doing to Neville.

Description has it so someone says something. At the same time, some examples have trauma stirring by something other than words. Either description is not fitting, or those examples do not fit.

My previous question has got conveniently ignored. Even the description now reads that things typically lead to hysterics or somesuch. What if they don't? (edit: but trauma is there and it's reminded of)

For the lulz, yeah, tropers did scour their memory of examples when there's trauma (as a predetermined device usually, to escape the ymmv aspect of degree of traumatism) in the past and some kind of going-ballistic moment in the present. But that's not what the title says. Trigger is a neutral word for me (remembering a trauma can cause more simple, innocuous things or even beneficial, like reassuring current mindset and driving force). If this trope candidate is people breaking down due to a clueless reminder, then write that as the description instead of what it is now. If not — then perhaps clarify what are other than "typical" reactions covered by this trope and look for examples of those.

"This is when someone suddenly suffers from the onset of repressed traumatic memories because of some trigger, such as another character unknowingly saying or doing something related to the memories. This typically results in the traumatized individual getting extremely anxious, and may even lead to them breaking down in tears or engaging in sudden violent behavior."

I've removed the Clockwork Orange example, because that involved deliberate trauma triggering. I'd say that the Criminal Intent example counts, because someone had to have chosen that music, not realizing that it would cause the guy to go berserk and kill someone.

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